On July 6, 2012, after her parents wished her goodnight and thought she was asleep, 16-year-old Skylar Neese was seen on grainy CCTV slipping out her bedroom window and getting into a waiting car. Her friends had told her they wanted to go for a late-night drive—but they had planned something far more sinister. That was the last time she was seen alive. Skylar Neese was a bright, outgoing 16-year-old from Star City, West Virginia. She was close friends with Sheila Eddy and later became close with Rachel Shoaf. Over time, tension grew between them. Skylar confided in others and posted online hints suggesting her two friends were keeping secrets and leaving her out. Sheila and Rachel decided they didn’t want to be friends with her anymore — but instead of simply cutting her off, they started talking about killing her.

On July 5, 2012, Skylar returned home from her shift at Wendy’s. That night, Sheila and Rachel texted her, inviting her to sneak out for a drive, as they had done before. Just after midnight, Skylar climbed out her bedroom window. A grainy surveillance camera caught her walking across the parking lot and getting into a silver sedan. It was the last time she was seen alive.

In this footage, a man is seen crouching outside his neighbor’s door, injecting a potentially lethal chemical mixture into their home- in retaliation for everyday noises like heavy footsteps, dragging furniture, and even a squeaky toilet seat. More details 🧵 Surveillance footage from June 27, 2023, shows Xuming Li, 36, crouching outside his downstairs neighbors’ front door in Tampa, Florida. He injects a noxious liquid into the threshold using a syringe. That same chemical odor later made the family inside — husband Umar Abdullah, his wife, and their infant — sick. Investigators say Li later admitted he wanted to “end the noise” from footsteps, furniture, and a crying baby above.

Between May 31 and June 27, 2023, the Abdullahs suffered ongoing symptoms including headaches more severe than migraines, nausea, shortness of breath, skin and eye irritation, and their baby losing clumps of hair. Smoke alarms prompted fire department inspections that found no gas leaks.

This is the moment 4-year-old Cash Gernon was taken from his crib while sleeping next to his twin brother in their Dallas home. It was early morning, and Cash would never be seen alive again. More in 🧵 On the morning of May 15, 2021, around 5 a.m., 4‑year‑old Cash Gernon was taken from his bed in his crib while sleeping next to his twin brother at a home in the Mountain Creek area of Dallas, Texas. The abduction was captured on home surveillance. 18‑year‑old Darriynn Ronnell Brown was later identified as the person seen lifting Cash and carrying him away .

At approximately 6:40 a.m., a jogger discovered Cash’s body lying in the 7500 block of Saddleridge Drive—about eight blocks from the home. He had multiple fatal stab wounds and was without a shirt or shoes. Police ruled his death a homicide by an edged weapon .

The boys had been in the care of their father’s girlfriend, Monica Sherrod, since their father disappeared in March. Sherrod reported Cash missing to police just before 11 a.m., and provided the surveillance video that identified Brown

This footage captures two girls, Libby German and Abby Williams, on the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana—just moments before a man is seen approaching. The clip was found on Libby’s phone. They were never seen alive again. Full story in 🧵 On the afternoon of February 13, 2017, 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German and 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams were dropped off by Libby’s older sister, Kelsi, at the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. It was a school day off, and the girls had decided to spend part of it hiking and taking photos along the popular trail, located in a wooded area just outside their small town.

At around 2:07 p.m., Libby posted a photo of Abby walking across the old railway bridge on Snapchat. That was the last known image of either girl alive. They were supposed to be picked up by 3:15 p.m., but they never showed up. By 5:30 p.m., after calls went unanswered and searches turned up nothing, the girls were reported missing. That evening, local volunteers and law enforcement conducted a wide search of the area, but the effort was called off due to darkness.

This is the moment Chris Watts, husband and father of two girls, realized the neighbor’s CCTV had captured footage that didn’t match what he told police. His hands went behind his head as the video played. His wife and daughters were missing. Full story 🧵 Chris Watts lived with his wife Shanann and their two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, in Frederick, Colorado. On August 13, 2018, Shanann was dropped off at home around 1:48 a.m. by her friend Nicole Atkinson, after returning from a business trip. Later that morning, Shanann missed a prenatal appointment and stopped responding to calls and texts. Atkinson returned to the house and, seeing her car still parked in the garage, called police.

Officers arrived for a welfare check and found Shanann’s purse, phone, and medication still in the house—but no trace of her or the girls. Chris Watts, who had gone to work early that morning, returned home and appeared cooperative. That same day and the next, he gave TV interviews outside his house, pleading for his family’s safe return and saying he had “no idea” where they were.

(Surveillance video shows Shanann Watts arriving home from a business)

The sudden realization that your actions will result in spending the rest of your life in prison. 🧵👇 On the night of September 1, 2016, Greg Mulvihill received a call from a blocked number. The voice told him there was evidence related to his ongoing custody battle hidden near a dirt path in Carlsbad, California. Around 11 p.m., Greg went to the location with a flashlight and a baseball bat. As he reached the designated spot, a figure hidden in the bushes fired a single shot from a rifle. The bullet struck him in the chest—but he survived.

Police were called immediately. Investigators found tire tracks, a towel with sweat DNA, and a shell casing. Cell tower data showed that Greg’s estranged wife, Diana Lovejoy, and her firearms instructor, Weldon McDavid Jr., had both been near the scene that night. Weldon’s DNA was found on the towel, and the bullet matched a rifle registered to him. Surveillance video later showed Diana buying the burner phone used to lure Greg.

In January 1993, a three-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Florida, told a child protection worker that “Daddy hurt Mommy.” His mother, 23-year-old Bonnie Haim, had just vanished without a trace. Her car was found abandoned miles from home, but there was no sign of her. Despite the child’s words and growing suspicion, no one was ever arrested. For more than two decades, the case remained unsolved—until a chance discovery decades later changed everything. In January 1993, 23-year-old Bonnie Haim disappeared from her home in Jacksonville, Florida. She was a young mother with a three-year-old son named Aaron and was working in the accounting department of a local construction supply company. Her car, a red Nissan, was later found abandoned near the Jacksonville airport. The driver’s seat had been pushed too far back for someone of Bonnie’s height to have driven it, and inside was a shoeprint that police believed matched shoes owned by her husband, Michael Haim. At the time, no body was found, and Michael told police Bonnie had left the house the night before after an argument and never returned. Their son Aaron, who was just three years old, told a child services worker, “Daddy hurt Mommy” and said he had seen his father shoot her and throw a gun out of the car. Despite the child’s statement, and growing suspicion around Michael, the case stalled. Bonnie was legally declared dead in 1999.

On the evening of October 25, 1994, in Union, South Carolina, Susan Smith, a 23-year-old mother, reported a terrifying ordeal. She tearfully claimed to police that a Black man had carjacked her vehicle at a red light, driving off with her two young sons—Michael, age 3, and Alexander, age 14 months—still strapped in their car seats. Her desperate pleas for help sparked immediate concern, leading authorities and residents alike into a frantic search for the missing children.🧵 As investigators pursued every possible lead, Susan’s account began to show troubling inconsistencies. Over nine tense days, her public appearances, tearful appeals, and the vague description of the alleged carjacker dominated national news. But police were quietly growing suspicious, noticing discrepancies between her statements and evidence from the scene. Efforts to locate the mysterious abductor repeatedly hit dead ends, raising doubts about her version of events.

Facing intensifying scrutiny, Susan eventually broke down on November 3, 1994, confessing to a chilling truth. She admitted there was no carjacker and no abduction; in reality, she had driven her own vehicle with her two children inside to John D. Long Lake, deliberately letting the car roll into the water, drowning them both. Her motive, she revealed, was to remove perceived obstacles to a romantic relationship with a wealthy man who was not interested in raising her children.

In the woods of Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, just off a quiet trail not far from a now-abandoned campsite, a hunter came across a rusted 55-gallon steel drum on November 10, 1985. Inside were the remains of a woman and a young girl. Both had been wrapped in plastic and electrical wire. Both had suffered blunt force trauma to the head. No identification was found. Their faces were unrecognizable, and there were no missing persons reports that matched. Law enforcement searched missing children’s databases across the country, distributed composite sketches, and asked the public for help, but the case quickly went cold. The woman and child remained unidentified. 🧵 In 1987, the two were buried together in Saint John the Baptist Cemetery in Allenstown. They were placed in a steel casket, and a granite gravestone was laid above them. The inscription read: “Here lies the mortal remains, known only to God, of a woman, age 23 to 33, and a girl child, aged 8 to 10. Their slain bodies were found on November 10, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. May their souls find peace in God’s loving care.”

For years, that was the end of the story—until May 9, 2000, when a New Hampshire State Police detective returned to the scene while working a missing persons case. About 100 feet from where the first drum had been found, he spotted a second one. This time, it contained the remains of two more young girls. Like the first pair, they had been wrapped in plastic, showed signs of blunt force trauma, and were severely decomposed. The connection between the four was unmistakable, though no one knew who they were, or who had killed them.

A game where the bride and groom competed to open a wrapped confectionery item. The bride won

🚨More details 👇🏽 Uzbekistan 🇺🇿- This happened during a wedding ceremony on June 6, 2022, in the "Tolto‘g‘ay" neighborhood of Uzun district, Surkhandarya region. The incident, captured on video and spread on social media, involved a game where the bride and groom competed to open a wrapped confectionery item. The bride succeeded first, which led the groom, in a moment of anger, to slap her.

Despite the altercation, the wedding continued without further incidents, and no formal complaints were made to law enforcement by the end of the day. The widespread attention of the video prompted an investigation by the Uzun District Police Department. The groom, identified only by his initials X.R., was subject to administrative proceedings under Article 183 of the Administrative Responsibility Code (minor hooliganism).

Preventive discussions were also held with the bride, groom, and their parents. However, the groom ultimately avoided legal responsibility after apologizing to his wife, and since there was no formal complaint from the bride, administrative punishment was not applied

The deputy misinterpreted the sound of an acorn striking the patrol vehicle as a gunshot. On November 12, 2023, an incident involving Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputies in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, led to the resignation of Deputy Jesse Hernandez following an officer-involved shooting.

Responding to a disturbance involving Marquis Jackson, accused of grand theft auto and making threats, deputies apprehended Jackson after the victim reported his possession of firearms and a silencer.

During the ongoing investigation, Hernandez mistakenly interpreted an acorn hitting the patrol car as a gunshot, resulting in both Hernandez and Sergeant Beth Roberts discharging their weapons into the vehicle with Jackson handcuffed inside.

No injuries were reported, and subsequent investigations judged Hernandez's response as not objectively reasonable, leading to his resignation, while Roberts was exonerated.